CAPFs saw 438 suicides, 7 fratricides in 3 years; over 23,000 personnel resigned since 2014: GovtOver 438 personnel from Central Armed Police Forces, Assam Rifles, and National Security Guard died by suicide in the last three years. Sev...
16 Dec, 2025, 05.31 PM IST
CISF jawan, 32, shoots himself at Surat international airport; Probe into alleged suicide underwayA CISF jawan, Kisan Singh, 32, from Jaipur, died by suicide at Surat International Airport's washroom. Despite a decrease in suicide rates ...
04 Jan, 2025, 06.16 PM IST
Work-life balance helps reduce suicides committed by CISF jawans by 40% for the first time in five yearsCISF has reduced its suicide rate by 40%, bringing it below the national rate with comprehensive measures focusing on mental health, work-l...
03 Jan, 2025, 01.36 PM IST
730 CAPF, NSG and AR personnel committed suicide in last five years: GovtOver 700 personnel from the Central Armed Police Forces, National Security Guard, and Assam Rifles tragically died by suicide in the past f...
04 Dec, 2024, 04.58 PM IST
1,532 personnel of CAPFs, NSG, Assam Rifles committed suicide since 2011: GovtAccording to Union Minister Nityanand Rai, 1,532 personnel from the Central Armed Police Forces, the Assam Rifles, and the National Securit...
08 Aug, 2023, 02.36 PM IST
657 CAPF personnel committed suicide in 5 years: GovtNityanand Rai , the minister of state for home, told Rajya Sabha that 153 personnel died by suicide in 2021, 149 in 2020, 133 in 2019, 97 i...
03 Aug, 2022, 03.05 PM IST
100 days annual leave plan for CAPF jawans to be announced soonThe Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has held multiple meetings, the latest being early this month, to thrash out the issues delaying the imp...
27 Mar, 2022, 03.35 PM IST
MHA appointed taskforce on suicides in CAPFs to study fratricides tooA draft report will first be prepared and circulated among the CAPFs for their final comments, following which it will be submitted to the ...
07 Mar, 2022, 08.46 PM IST
MHA creates taskforce to prevent suicides by CAPF troopsThe Union Home Ministry has set up a taskforce comprising its senior-most officers for the prevention of suicide by central paramilitary fo...
01 Dec, 2021, 06.25 PM IST
Accidents, suicides claimed lives of 2,200 CAPF personnel in 2014-2018 periodIn 2018 alone, 104 CAPF personnel died in accidents while 28 in suicides, totalling 132 deaths during the year, the National Crime Records ...
19 Jan, 2020, 02.59 PM IST
Government announces free air travel for paramilitary forces to KashmirThe Ministry of Home Affairs issued an order saying it "has approved the entitlement of air travel on Delhi-Srinagar, Srinagar-Delhi, Jammu...
21 Feb, 2019, 05.39 PM IST
Paramilitary convoy movement by road in JK to continue: MHAThe statement came after 40 CRPF personnel were killed and five injured on Thursday when a Jaish-e-Mohammad suicide bomber rammed a vehicle.
17 Feb, 2019, 08.20 PM IST
Road accidents, not terrorists, kill most paramilitary troops: NCRBNew NCRB data show that of 1,232 central armed police force (CAPF) deaths in 2014, 32 per cent were due to road accidents.
13 Jul, 2018, 03.55 PM IST
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12 Jul, 2018, 10.56 PM IST
Government hires stress counsellors in Indo-Tibetan Border PoliceThe about 80,000 personnel-strong ITBP is deployed in some of the most difficult locations in the hinterland and amidst the harshest of wea...
11 Jul, 2018, 05.45 PM IST
FBI to train Indian police on handling suicide bombersSuicide Bomber Prevention Workshop to be held as part of Indo-US partnership in homeland security.
01 Jul, 2013, 08.50 AM IST
Suicides bigger killer than death-in-action in central forcesCausative factors in most cases were found to be generally personal and domestic like marital discords, personal enmity, mental illness and...
27 Nov, 2012, 03.48 PM IST